John Gideon is a hero, activist, and one of the great leaders of the Electronic Voting reform movement. Please send your thoughts and prayers his way.

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Blogged by Brad Friedman on 4/27/2009 12:29PM News About Our Friend John Gideon...Some troubling news came in last night concerning John Gideon, my friend, colleague, frequent BRAD BLOG guest blogger and the years-long publisher of the indispensable "Daily Voting News". Allow me to defer to the announcement just released by Ellen Theisen, John's partner at VotersUnite.org...

Our friend and colleague, John Gideon collapsed in his home on Sunday morning where he was discovered by his family and rushed to the hospital.

Medical staff told me last night (Sunday) that he was in "very critical condition". And today he remains in the ICU, with a preliminary diagnosis of meningitis.

Brad Friedman and I have been in regular contact with John's family, and I'm leaving now to go to the hospital in Seattle, which is the best neurological facility in the entire region.

Starting tomorrow, some of us will be taking steps to cobble together a perhaps somewhat truncated version of the "Daily Voting News" in order to attempt to fill his shoes until his return. But as you all know, they are very big shoes to fill.

Please send your good thoughts to John and his family. I will, of course, keep you updated as I learn anything more.

9. John Gideon is one of the kindest and most committed people I have ever known.

This is so sad to open my DU evening with. I have known John well since 2005, have shared meals with him on the Left Coast and election integrity skirmishes ("if we never stop fighting, ...") all over the country.

John has been as available an all-encompassing election integrity info-master as one could have hoped for, getting us needed info in a few hours, if not a few minutes, on numerous occasions.

He has also been a personal friend, someone I shipped two cases of organic berry jam from my Tennessee farm to this December for him to share with his Ecotopia kith and kin.

Although I did not know it, it comes as no surprise that John was retired military. When it comes to his country, John has brooked no bullshit but he has kept an even strain.

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